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Power Spot Map maps shrines, temples, and sacred places, and explains what each is locally associated with, with sources.
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ShrineMeiji Jingu
- Health & Healing
- Protection & Safety
- Bonds & Matchmaking
A 1920 Shinto shrine in central Tokyo enshrining Emperor Meiji and Empress Shōken, set in a 70-hectare forest that was planted from scratch and is visited today for prayers about bonds, protection and health.
TempleSenso-ji
- Money & Prosperity
- Protection & Safety
Tokyo's oldest temple, in Asakusa, built around a statue of Kannon that two fishermen brothers are said to have pulled from the river in 628, and visited today for prayers about money and protection.
ShrineKanda Myojin
- Career & Work
- Family & Home
- Money & Prosperity
A Chiyoda shrine that served as the guardian shrine of all Edo, enshrining three deities between them associated with business prosperity, good matches and warding off misfortune, and these days selling a charm for information security.
ShrineTokyo Daijingu
- Family & Home
- Love & Romance
- Money & Prosperity
A Chiyoda shrine founded in 1880 as a Tokyo branch of Ise, known as "Tokyo's O-Ise-sama" and visited above all for prayers about relationships, an association the shrine itself explains through the three deities of creation enshrined here.
ShrineYushima Tenmangu
- Exams & Study
A Bunkyo shrine enshrining Sugawara no Michizane, where Tokyo students come to pray before examinations, and whose plum garden opens each February.
ShrineHie Shrine
- Career & Work
- Fertility & Children
- Money & Prosperity
A shrine on a wooded rise in Nagatacho, once the guardian of Edo Castle, whose messenger is the monkey, a pun the shrine explains itself, connecting it to warding off evil, to winning, and to the tying of bonds.
ShrineNezu Shrine
- Career & Work
- Exams & Study
- Family & Home
A Bunkyo shrine whose entire 1706 complex survives intact as an Important Cultural Property, rare in Tokyo, with an azalea hill and a tunnel of small red torii (鳥居).
TempleGotoku-ji
- Money & Prosperity
- Bonds & Matchmaking
A Sōtō Zen temple in Setagaya where thousands of white beckoning-cat figurines are left by visitors, and where the temple is careful to say the cat brings connections, not fortune.
TempleZojo-ji
- Career & Work
- Family & Home
- Money & Prosperity
A Pure Land temple in Shiba, founded in 1393 and chosen by the Tokugawa as their family temple, whose hidden principal image is known as the Black Honzon of victory.
ShrineAtago Shrine
- Career & Work
- Love & Romance
- Money & Prosperity
A shrine on a steep hill in Minato, founded in 1603 on Tokugawa Ieyasu's order as a deity against fire, and known for the stone staircase named after a rider who is said to have galloped up it.
ShrineSuitengu
- Family & Home
- Fertility & Children
- Protection & Safety
A Nihonbashi shrine long known for safe childbirth and for praying to conceive, whose safe-birth charm is a length of cotton worn as a belly band.
ShrineAkasaka Hikawa Shrine
- Family & Home
- Love & Romance
- Money & Prosperity
A Minato shrine founded in 951 whose Edo-period buildings survived both the earthquake and the war, known for warding off misfortune and for the tying of bonds, and the shrine explains why it is known for each.
ShrineUeno Toshogu
- Career & Work
- Health & Healing
A shrine in Ueno Park founded in 1627 to Tokugawa Ieyasu, whose gilded 1651 hall survived the Ueno war, the earthquake and the air raids intact.
ShrineAna Hachimangu
- Fertility & Children
- Money & Prosperity
- Skill & Mastery
A Waseda shrine named for a cave found in its hillside in 1641, which gives out an amulet for the circulation of money for six weeks each winter and nothing the rest of the year.
TempleZoshigaya Kishimojin-do
- Fertility & Children
A hall in Zoshigaya, built in 1664 and now a National Important Cultural Property, enshrining a deity who was a child-stealing demon before the Buddha taught her what losing a child meant.
ShrineOmiya Hachimangu
- Fertility & Children
- Protection & Safety
- Bonds & Matchmaking
A large wooded shrine in Suginami, founded in 1063 by Minamoto no Yoriyoshi after he read a bank of white cloud as the banners of his own clan, and known for child-rearing and warding.
What is Power Spot Map?
- Find places by wishMoney, love, study, health: browse places by the wish each is locally associated with, on the map or in collections.
- Know a place before you goOrigin and history, local meaning, and the practical part: hours, access, and what to keep in mind when visiting.
- Check every claimEach association carries an evidence level and links to the source it came from.
This is cultural and historical reference: background on what places are locally associated with, not a promise of results.How we verify
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